'Mother Tree and Friends' is a collaboration with Akiko Yamashita aimed at creating an interactive outdoor installation for a large city event. In this installation, a majestic banyan tree in Esplanade Park, Fort Lauderdale, is transformed into an interactive 'Mother Tree' that invites viewers to communicate with an illuminated forest. The installation utilizes projections, LEDs, and sound to illustrate the importance of older trees within the forest ecosystem. The 'Friends' – the trees surrounding the mother tree – respond, and the entire forest starts communicating through an underground mycorrhizal network.